How I Met Your Mother S06E19 – Legendaddy

When Barney finally meets his father, he's surprised to learn how his life turned out. The gang points out each other's "gaps", things they should know by adulthood but never learned.

Ted shows his house to the gang, pointing out all the ideas he has for it, including a basketball hoop in the backyard for his kids. Barney tells him the house should be his "seduction lounge", with sex swing, vibrating Jell-O pool and an outdoor stripper pole included. Marshall and Lily lead Barney outside, telling him the real reason for their visit wasn't to visit Ted's house, but to host Barney's intervention.

To explain why Barney needed an intervention, Future Ted goes back a few days, to the night when the gang tried watching March Madness in Barney's apartment. Barney's TV is broken, so he calls his building's super to bring a screwdriver and fix it for them. Ted mocks him for never having learned how to use a screwdriver.

Barney answers the door, expecting to see the super. Instead, Jerome Whittaker, Barney's dad, is at the door.

Whilst the two of them are at MacLaren's Bar getting better acquainted, the rest of the gang is upstairs in The apartment, wondering what the two are talking about. Ted starts to feel bad for criticizing Barney, when he realizes it was his dad that taught him how to use tools.

Robin says that everyone has some gaps in their knowledge; something really obvious to everyone else that they themselves never learned or knew. Ted doesn't think he has any gaps, but Robin brings up how he mispronounces the word "chameleon", since Ted only learned that word by reading it, not by hearing it. Ted points out a huge gap Robin never knew: that the North Pole is real.

Barney enters the apartment, and the gang ask about his time with his dad, Jerry. Barney tells them his dad is awesome; They both liked the same drinks, loved suits, has great stories, and is a big womanizer.

The rest of the gang warn him, telling them to be careful of not getting hurt, since Jerry was absent from so much of Barney's childhood and he might just be telling Barney what he wants to hear.

The next night at the bar, Ted points out one of Lily's gaps; she has terrible aim and can't throw properly. Jerry enters the bar and asks the gang for their help, since Barney won't return any of his calls. It turns out Barney lied about last night; he and his dad didn't have anything in common, and Barney found his dad really boring. The night ended badly, with Barney refusing to have dinner with Jerry and meet his family. Jerry asks the gang to convince Barney to give him another chance.

Back to Ted's house, Lily tells Barney the reason for their intervention is to convince Barney to have dinner with Jerry and meet his family. Barney refuses, telling Her he's never going to speak to his dad again. Marshall steps forward, saying that he'll never speak to his dad again, and he should take advantage of the opportunity.

Barney decides to give his dad another chance. He attends dinner with his dad and meet his wife, Cheryl and their son, J.J. Barney and Jerry reminisce on the time they met ZZ Top. Barney starts to rib on J.J., but once he finds out J.J. stands for Jerome Junior, he then leaves the house in anger and envy

Outside in the car, Marshall tries to bait Robin, Ted and Lily into pointing out his gaps. None of them will. Since the death of Marshall's dad, they've all been deliberately nice to him to make him feel better. Marshall noticed this and so previously tried to goad them into insulting him, such as growing a soul patch and adopting a pet possum.

Marshall tells them he's never going to move on if things don't get back to normal, so asks them to point out his gaps. They tell him all about his gaps:he can't wink or swallow pills, adds too much water to oatmeal and misses belt loops.

Jerome steps outside and finds Barney on the hood of his car, trying to take down their basketball hoop. Barney complains that it's not fair J.J. got a childhood, a dad and a real family, and he at least deserves the basketball hoop. Barney tells Jerry he's boring, and answers Jerrys question about why that angers him he repies  "if you were going to be some lame suburban dad, why couldn't you have been that for ''me'?!" Jerry admits he made a mistake, and asks what he can do to fix things.

Barney keeps trying to take down the basketball hoop. Jerry leaves and returns with some tools. He hands Barney a screwdriver and teaches him how to use it. Jerry expresses his regret and apologies for what he's done, and tells him he'd love to be a part of Barney's life, whenever Barney's ready. Basketball hoop in hand, Barney leaves.

The entire gang returns to Ted's house, offering Barney their support. He asks Ted if he still wants the hoop for the backyard, and the gang crowd around to comfort the upset Barney.

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